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    Please advice on this NAS

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by joeelmex, Oct 21, 2008.

  1. joeelmex

    joeelmex Notebook Evangelist

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    I need some opinions or recomendations. I am looking for a NAS that I can put all my music, video and pictures on it. I will like for it to have a media server in it so i can stream from it. Right now after doing lots of research this is the one that works best for my needs.

    http://www.buy.com/prod/buffalo-1tb-...206531661.html

    I am interested in your feeedback and your experience with this unit. I read it has a build in FTP server also if you enable it. If you have a better recomendation please let me know. Thanks and its on sale also!
     
    joeelmex, Oct 21, 2008
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    Read reviews on Smallnetbuilder.com for more in depth reviews.
     
    blue68f100, Oct 21, 2008
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    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Link is incomplete. Hopefully we do have members that own this. Ive been looking for NAS storage with RAID0 or RAID1 redundancy aswell.

    As above, i suggest reading in-depth reviews from other websites first.
     
    flipfire, Oct 22, 2008
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    blue68f100 Notebook Virtuoso

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    I use business class NAS's Snap's servers, listed in signature. These do not have the applications to host, but do work for storage. Normally I just change the pointer as to where the files are and have the application on the desktop. Smallnetbuilder has played with build your own NAS using linux and MS OS's as well as most all others on the market. None of these allowed him to get gige speeds. This is one reason I use SMB class hardware. As for streaming video you need to read the reviews, you would be surprised as to the results. For music yes it can be done, HD video NO with the ones he tested.
     
    blue68f100, Oct 22, 2008
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  5. joeelmex

    joeelmex Notebook Evangelist

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    Thanks for the pointers, I will let you all know how it does. Thanks.
     
    joeelmex, Oct 22, 2008
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